Apr 07, 2025

Two Kansas teens hospitalized after violent crash

Posted Apr 07, 2025 9:40 AM

BARTON COUNTY —Two teens were injured in an accident just before 7p.m. Sunday in Barton County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1994 Ford F150 driven by Benjamin Ryan Pflughoeft, 16, Claflin, was westbound on Kansas 4 seven miles east of Hoisington. The pickup crossed the center line, traveled into the eastbound lanes and crossed over into the south ditch. The vehicle continued southwest in the ditch, vaulted the embankment and struck the railroad bridge.

EMS transported Pflughoeft and a passenger Brody Carl Pflughoeft, 13,  Claflin to Clara Barton Hospital. They were properly restrained, according to the KHP.